Horseshoe Crab Family

Limulidae

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Limulidae (Horseshoe Crab Family) is a family of Xiphosurida.

EOL has data for 31 attributes, including:

first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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242 million years ago
is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus 1766) (Glossy Ibis)
mineralized tissue contains
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_4000013
- Definition: Component found in mineralized tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular matrix is mineralized)
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no
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/no
- Definition: This statement is false; the answer to this question is no.
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motility
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33596
- Definition: ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
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actively mobile
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile
- Definition: Organisms that move habitually, of their own volition.
- Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html
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number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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3
number of public records in BOLD
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
- Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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33
trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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carnivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
- Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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303.5 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Horseshoe crab family

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Horseshoe crab family includes 3 children: